Stephanie M. O'Dea (born 1976) is an American blogger, best-selling author and food writer, best known for slow cooking and mommy blogging. She has appeared on Good Morning America, The Rachael Ray Show, KRWM, Real Simple magazine, Woman's World, Oprah.com, and ABC.com. Her podcasts are featured on Spotify. O'Dea is an editor of Simply Gluten Free magazine and the founder of The Gluten Free Search Engine.
A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, O'Dea received a bachelor's degree in 1999 in English language and literature from San Francisco State University. She started her career as a director in preschool centers at the Family Service Agency for at-risk children. She held that position until 2003, when she received an opportunity to write a newspaper column called Steph and Sensibility for The Tracy Press.
From 2007, when she was seeking remote work opportunities to focus on her children, until 2010, she worked as a headline editor for BlogHer.com and Bay Area Parent magazine.
In 2008, she started a blog based on her mission to use her slow cooker every day of 2008.
In October 2009, O'Dea published her first book, Make It Fast, Cook It Slow: The Big Book of Everyday Slow Cooking. The cookbook was listed for six weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list.
In 2012, her website, A Year of Slow Cooking, was ranked third on the most influential Food Blog by Cision.
In 2010, she was featured in a SharkNinja infomercial as a slow cooking expert.
O'Dea is married to Adam Elliot O'Dea, a structural engineer. They have three children and reside in Millbrae, California.